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Profiles in leadership: Vice President for Research Gary K. Ostrander returns to the faculty
December 15, 2020 | 10:15 am | SHARE:
Gary K. Ostrander is stepping down as Vice President for Research to spend the next phase of his career focused on his own research.
A Christmas gift can have a lasting impact.
For Gary K. Ostrander, it was a GI Joe scuba diver he received when he was about 8.
“I became enamored with scuba diving and going under water, and then I saw Jacques Cousteau and I said ‘OK, you have diving, and you have science,’” said Ostrander, an accomplished biologist and the Florida State University Vice President for Research. “And I’ve never wavered from that. I just find the whole underwater world a fascinating place, and there’s so much we don’t know about it.”